Earthquakes history -- NASL style!, Part 2

Soccer in the 1970s: Friends and rivals John Rowlands, Antonio Simoes, Juli Veee and Mark Demling huddle up before a San Diego Sockers - Dallas Tornado pre-season match in 1979.

 

Soccer in the 1970s: Rodney Marsh and the Wowdies were equal parts of the magic at Tampa Stadium.

 

Happy 63rd birthday to Bill Sautter, the Temple University All-American who was selected by the Philadelphia Fury in the 1978 NASL Draft but split his 5-year NASL career with the Tulsa Roughnecks (1978-79) and San Jose Earthquakes (1980-82) -- scoring 7 goals in 56 games -- and later picked up the game of golf at the age of 30 and played in Champions Tour events.

 

Colorado Caribous 1978

 

NASL Action: The Goode Bay Earthquakes celebrated. Stan Terlecki goal at Spartan Stadium.





This was the greatest Quakes team I ever saw! Terlecki, Ingram, Zungul , Goosens , Cuellar and Clavijo! Wish they would wear these colors now on the MLS team!


NASL Action: Golden Bay Earthquakes forward Steve Zungul tees up a volley against the New York Cosmos at Spartan Stadium.

 

Happy 73rd birthday to England international Alec Lindsay (number 3), the sturdy Liverpool left back who won 2 league titles, 2 Charity Shields and an FA Cup and a UEFA Cup at Anfield, then jumped to the NASL in 1978 and made 32 appearances with the Oakland Stompers and Toronto Blizzard

 

Paul Child -- San Jose Earthquakes and Pittsburgh Spirit

 

Worst ever kits in North America.

 

MISL Dateline: On 9 March 1985, the Minnesota Strikers acquired forward Chris Dangerfield (number 15) from the Golden Bay Earthquakes, adding an important piece to the team’s playoff drive.

 

MISL Quotes: "I came over as a poor, unwanted guy from Poland and this country gave me everything. I got to play, I got really good pay, I got a good place to live. There is no other country in the world where I could become a well-known guy so quickly." - Stan Terlecki, Pittsburgh Spirit

 

Seeing these old Soccer Digest covers sure brings memories on how we got our info fix back in the day. I also used to buy "World Soccer" magazine, which a few news shops would carry in the Seattle area where i grew up

 

Kaz Deyna was an exceptional player, he sadly died in a car accident in San Diego after he retired.

 

NASL Legends: “Krazy George” Henderson

 

They were cool for that time....

 

I loved Soccer Digest
But even though it was a monthly publication (for only six months of the year - it later turned into a bi-monthly pub) it sure was lagging in promptness of news.
I recall watching Star Soccer on PBS one Saturday. Those games were usually played one or two weeks beforehand. This one match was Tottenham v Liverpool and the commentator mentioned Ray Kennedy, "who scored the all-important goal in Munich to put Liverpool into the European Cup final."
A few days later I received the latest issue of Soccer Digest and in the International section it had news on a few of the Round of 16 matchups along with the matchups of the quarterfinals.